Colin M's 1:76 Matchbox A-34 Mk 1 Comet

[JR]

Brilliant Colin, very nice indeed, loving the tree and the paint job.:thumb2::thumb2::thumb2:

[Fernando N]

Love the original Matchbox kit Colin, brings back memories:smiling4:
Neat paintwork and tree for the base:thumb2:

[Neil Merryweather]

very nice indeed ,Colin

[colin m]

Thanks everyone for your comments. I’m actually liking this armour thing.
Anyway, tiny tank is done. Antennas courtesy of the wife.

[papa 695]

Great work Colin, you wouldn’t think it’s 1/76th.

[Richard48]

Great lil Comet.Looks excellent.
Rich

[rtfoe]

Good on you to take on armour for Simon's tribute build Colin. It's looking good...it shows that if you're a modeler anything is possible.

I can see the sag in the tree branches...one remedy if you want to attempt it is to needle and thread the glued leaf bushes and tie them up. Add some more leaves to cover the thread and it will hold its position.
Another trick amour guys do for hiding track attachments is to position the link behind mud guards. In your case the groundwork will hide that.
Really looks good and can be mistaken for a 1/35 build.
I hope you venture more with armour when you want a little bit of terra firma in between flying builds. :smiling2:

Cheers,
Richard

[Graeme C.]

That's a cracking little tank Colin, the comet is a favourite of mine.

[colin m]

hiding track attachments is to position the link behind mud guards.

Nice idea Richard, but as you guessed, they would be hiding in the mud. And the tree, well it's more of a bush now :smiling5: Lesson learnt, I'll use copper next time.

Love the original Matchbox kit

I like them quite a bit. I've built a few old aircraft kits and always liked them.

thanks for naming it after me!!

No worry, usual fee applies.

Wow this takes me back Colin.I loved Matchbox as a youngster

Me too. I think it was a combination of colourful boxes and that funny clear panel on some of the boxes.

Finished. Tiny tank was completed yesterday, today, the diorama. Or is it a vignette ? does it need to be a certain size for a dio' I don't know.











Well, I've more than dabbled in armour world, I've got a feeling, I might be back sometime in the future.

[Guest]

Very nice indeed Colin. Lovely delicate touch on the effects.

St Andrew a Scottish tank crew perhaps ?

Love the tree a very piece of imaginative artistic work.

Laurie

[JR]

Hope you do Colin, a great build, when I first saw the photos It looked like 1/35 .Well done .

[colin m]

when I first saw the photos It looked like 1/35

Thanks John. A lot of the weathering tips I watched on youtube were for 1:35 scale, so I couldn't fully make them work in 1:76. There's only one solution to this problem, I'm going to need a bigger tank.

[adt70hk]

Colin

Looking very, very good indeed. Certainly takes me back to my youf when I built a couple of these as a kid.

There's a YouTube channel by a chap called Martin Kovac aka Knight Shift. Whilst he does a lot of 1/35, he also does a smattering of 1/72.

ATB

Andrew

[Jim R]

Hi Colin
I would call that an all round success. You've made a fine job of this and Simon would have appreciated getting a fine result from such an old and cheap kit.
Jim

[Neil Merryweather]

I also thought it was 1-35 at first
You must be doing something right :thumb2: